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Life after an internet mob attack

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Re: Life after an internet mob attack

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Post by betwixthewires »

koheripbal wrote: post #147
betwixthewires wrote: post #119

1) be pseudonymous. People in my real life don't need to know what I do on the internet. Not like I'm doing anything untoward, but I am candidly discussing things with random strangers, including things some might view as beyond discussion, and you don't want some crusade against you for that. Your real life and your internet life don't need to overlap, and 99% of people get no benefit from them overlapping. 2) never…

1 and 6 are mutually exclusive.

Sure, if done right. But in the event it does happen, there are people in this world that are the reason we have prison as a deterrent. You must deter these kinds of people.

Re: Life after an internet mob attack

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Post by Dah00n »

kokanator wrote: post #44
polote wrote: post #24

There are a lot of talks on HN about the toxicity of social media. And people are pretty angry against Google and Facebook. But to me the worse is by far Twitter. There are plenty of random people who have a disproportionate number of followers compared to the quality of their posts. And as a result can do these kind of mods. Which are amplified by retweets, something that barely exists in other social media. Random…

>Random people can have too much power. So the common persons voice should be rate limited? Only those 'qualified' should be able to have a larger impact? Who makes the rules in this situation?

Random person could just as well be Trump or Biden. It doesn't have to be common persons. Twitter gives too much power to anyone.

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Post by axiosgunnar »

bluefirebrand wrote: post #48
smoldesu wrote: post #4

This is why your identity online should never be traceable back to your real name. It's a pretty scorched-earth opinion on privacy, but the internet ultimately doesn't change if you use an alias. If you do so, employers will come back empty-handed when they try Googling you, and they'll have a harder time finding "that dumb Twitter post" that jeopardizes your job. None of this is to say that you should be a bad perso…

This is sometimes easier said than done. I've always tried to keep my social media presence far away from my real name, but a few years back I went to a job interview and one of the first questions they asked me was about my Twitch channel. I didn't have any major following, it's mostly just a couple of friends and I will start a stream so my buddies can watch and we can chat about the game. We had been doing that fo…

Did they talk to your friends as references before the interview? Perhaps one of your friends casually mentioned it, without even meaning any harm.

Re: Life after an internet mob attack

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Post by sethammons »

jaywalk wrote: post #61
kokanator wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Random people can have too much power. So the common persons voice should be rate limited? Only those 'qualified' should be able to have a larger impact? Who makes the rules in this situation?

> So the common persons voice should be rate limited? Only those 'qualified' should be able to have a larger impact? Yes, to both. To go along with what the OP was saying, the common person should have to get the attention of someone with a "professional account" in order to get their voice amplified. Of course, that's assuming "professional accounts" actually mean something and aren't handed out like blue checkmarks…

starting to sound like a republic :)

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Post by [deleted] »

rapht wrote: post #139
sneak wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is already a mechanism for conveying liability to the publisher (not the platform, but the tweeter/poster, as it should be) when they publish false claims of fact (ie lies).

Precisely: this does not work in practice! I see many reasons why, the first of which is just that most of the time the damage is already done by the time it goes to court, assuming you can find the real name behind the usernames that professed lies, and I'm not even talking about bots. That's why the liability has to rest on platforms -- and that's in addition to the publisher's liability. Edit: formatting

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Re: Life after an internet mob attack

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Post by whatshisface »

camillomiller wrote: post #102

Had me for a while, then unfortunately lost me at the quote of Scott Adams. Adams is EXACTLY who I think anyone should avoid quoting at all costs, when you’re rightfully criticizing the Internet Morality Hordes. If you wanna know why, just scroll his Twitter timeline.

On the ground level of actually quality, Scott Adams is not great. On the meta-level of continuing to live one's life when hated by the internet, he's really something.

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Post by SavantIdiot »

camillomiller wrote: post #102

Had me for a while, then unfortunately lost me at the quote of Scott Adams. Adams is EXACTLY who I think anyone should avoid quoting at all costs, when you’re rightfully criticizing the Internet Morality Hordes. If you wanna know why, just scroll his Twitter timeline.

Seriously, the dude is admittedly creepy, didn't he claim he has the power to hypnotize women...? wow, let's admit you violate consent.
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